Hey Hey,

So I went to look for a past email and when I clicked on the folder Outlook hung for a couple of minutes... I decided it was time to see how much space my email was talking up..

The result.... too much.

Outlook - Archive Folder - 774MB
Outlook - Personal Folder - 137MB
Rogers Yahoo Mail - 200MB
Hotmail - 20MB
Gmail - 932MB

This doesn't account for my work email... Which I know is sitting at around 300MB... This is just my home accounts... Now there are 9 accounts associated with outlook...

I subscribe to quite a few mailing lists... I'd say they account for about 50-60% of the email I receive, however I still average 1000+ emails each week. Then again on high traffic days (or while WMF was big news... I was averaging more than that daily with some of my mailing lists)... The sad part is that I read about 95% of the emails I receive... Some days I may not because I'm not in the mood... and ones that are announcing vulns in various operating systems I may just read the synopsys.... even still.. I think I'm consuming a good deal of space for email... I have 2 or 3 other gmail accounts that I use on occasion but given the size of those ones.. I decided I'd best leave them out before I look like too much of a geek..

I also have a 700MB Outlook PST burned to disk from a couple installs ago.. it has really old email that i'm just hanging on to for the sake of hanging on to it.

So spill it..... How big is yours?

Peace,
HT